Tag: Jewish Scriptures

  • Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55, no. 2

    The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes the following: David Chapman and Andreas Köstenberger, “Jewish Intertestamental and Early Rabbinic Literature: An Annotated Bibliographic Resource Updated (Part 1)” Armin Baum, “A Theological Justification for the Canonical Status of Literary Forgeries: Jacob’s Deceit (Genesis 27) and Petr Pokorný’s Sola…

  • Walton, Matthews, and Chavalas, Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament

    Ahead of class this fall, the folks at InterVarsity have kindly forwarded John Walton, Victor Matthews, and Mark Chavalas’s Old Testament backgrounds commentary (2000). According to the publisher’s description, The unique commentary joins The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament in providing historical, social and cultural background for each passage of the Old Testament. From…

  • Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (July 26, 2012)

    The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies John Choi, Traditions at Odds: The Reception of the Pentateuch in Biblical and Second Temple Period Literature, reviewed by John Engle Scott C. Jones, Rumors of Wisdom: Job 28 as Poetry, reviewed by Edward L. Greenstein Michael E. W. Thompson, Where Is…

  • Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (July 19, 2012)

    The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Leslie C. Allen, A Liturgy of Grief: A Pastoral Commentary on Lamentations, reviewed by Elizabeth Boase Edwin M. Good, Genesis 1–11: Tales of the Earliest World, reviewed by George Savran R. B. Salters, Lamentations: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary, reviewed by Eleuterio…

  • Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (July 11, 2012)

    The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Stephen J. Bennett, Ecclesiastes/Lamentations: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition, reviewed by Russell L. Meek Alicia Suskin Ostriker, For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book, reviewed by Barbara Green New Testament and Cognate Studies Michael F. Bird and…

  • Bulletin for Biblical Research 22, no. 2

    The latest issue of the Bulletin for Biblical Research arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes: Beat Weber, “Toward a Theory of the Poetry of the Hebrew Bible: The Poetry of the Psalms as a Test Case” Grant LeMarquand, “The Bible as Specimen, Talisman, and Dragoman in Africa: A Look at Some African Uses of the Psalms and…